“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
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Barnes & Noble edition of original 1932 book.
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Iris Murdoch
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“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
“Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?”
“I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm str...”
“A marriage is a very secret place.”
“There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our ey...”
“I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to ut...”
“Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.”
“I shall not attempt here to describe my marriage. Some impression of it will doubtless emerge. For the present story, its general nature rather than its detail is important. It was not a suc...”
“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”